Elizabeth Warren-for-White House drive gets fresh push with new site

Run, Warren, Run! That’s the bold-face type across the top of the new site www.ready4warren.com, put up by a group encouraging Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren to run for president. The site went live after months of the group pushing its cause on Twitter and Facebook, one of its leaders told Politico. The site includes a petition urging the senator to run – something she’s said she won’t do. A spokeswoman for Warren said in an email to Politico that the senator “does not support this effort.”

Speedy deportations? No thanks. The Wall Street Journal reports the fate of the Obama administration’s plan to deal with a surge of migrant children and families crossing the southern U.S. border is expected to hinge on the Senate. There, Democrats are divided about giving immigration officials more power to quickly return the children to their home countries. House Republicans want to tie any funding to a 2008 law that requires children to be placed with sponsors in the U.S. while their deportation cases unfold in courts.

Poor lawmakers: The Washington Post reports on a “poverty simulation” at the Capitol designed to give bipartisan members of Congress a glimpse into the life of the poor. The role play was part of an hour-long exercise to help those working on Capitol Hill understand the day-to-day life of low-income families, the Post said. It was put on by energy firm Entergy and Catholic Charities. An Entergy official said the hope was the simulation would instill a sense of empathy as Congress debates issues during the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty.

Committing to climate: The New York Times writes about the Obama administration’s latest moves aimed at combating climate change, including initiatives aimed at guarding the electricity supply; improving local planning for flooding, coastal erosion and storm surges; and better predicting landslide risks as sea levels rise. The initiatives are part of a broader administration push to build support for President Barack Obama’s climate agenda. Part of that agenda, about curbing carbon pollution from power plants, has drawn opposition from coal-dependent states.

Internet sales tax push: Senators who want to give states more latitude to change sales taxes on Internet purchases are readying a last-ditch effort to pass legislation before the midterm elections, the Hill writes. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has been pushing such a fix for years, and Senate supporters now believe they have a perfect vehicle in another measure, the Internet Tax Freedom Act. That bill would extend a long-standing ban on state and local taxes on Internet access. But pairing the bills could set up a showdown between the House and Senate: House Republicans have shown little interest in online sales tax legislation.

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